http://www.metafilter.com/tags/CharlesBock Posts tagged with 'CharlesBock' at MetaFilter. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:13:25 -0800 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:13:25 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/68814/The%2Dnew%2DItboy Who's the new darling of the literary world? <a href="http://www.beautifulchildren.net">Charles </a><a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/feb/05/vegas-literary-hero-emerges/">Bock</a>. Although, <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/mailbag/anonymous_readers_are_a_cynical_and_suspicious_lot_76189.asp?c=rss">some </a>are <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/lit_crit/one_last_point_about_charles_bock_76125.asp?c=rss">asking</a>, how the hell did a guy like him get all this <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/magazine/27Bock-t.html?ref=magazine">high-profile</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/books/review/Schillinger2-t.html">coverage</a>? <small><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/21586/Essay-by-Charles-Bock-on-Comics-and-Contemporary-Art">[Bock previously on MeFi]</a></small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68814 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:13:25 -0800 book books CharlesBock LasVegas literary writers mattbucher http://www.metafilter.com/21586/Essay%2Dby%2DCharles%2DBock%2Don%2DComics%2Dand%2DContemporary%2DArt <a href="http://www.artkrush.com/thearticles/020_woa_bockontolstoy/index.asp">Picasso vs The Uncanny X-Men. </a> Charles Bock with a really long essay digs up the old dead horse of "What Is Art?" Do you stare blankly at contemporary/conceptual art and try to <i>get</i> what critics and curators think is so great? Was Tolstoy right that truly great art must be able to communicate to laypeople with no art training? I myself love spending afternoons at Museums, not to look at the art, but to look at people confused out of their minds. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.21586 Wed, 13 Nov 2002 07:42:07 -0800 art CharlesBock comicbooks comics Stan Chin